New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-17
THE IRISH LEADERSHIP.
no THOUGHTS OF PARNELLs RETIREMENT.
nus HEALTH IMPRovING-TnE PACKED JURY IN
pUBIIN-MR. REDMOND ILL-FA1LCRE OF
THE ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE.
CABLE To THE IRIDUNE.1

IBY CABLE TO THE TRIBuNE.l
Copyright; 1887 North Ameriean Gable Ne"s CO.
LONDON, Feb. 16.-My attention has been ca'leo
10 certain statements that have been published
In American newspapers to the effect thao MI
parncli was about to resign the leadership OF ti'e
irish party owing TO q breakup OF his heai,i
and that Mr. IIealy was to take his place
phould not notice such an absurd rumor ohIy
That I have been urged TO do 50 by an anxious
American friend. 1t betrays total unacqu"'i.
ance with the affairs of our party MI fdhei''
thank God is in the enjoyment OF vigorous
conyale scence and is growing visloly stronger
eyery dav. 1t is only few minutes since was
baking with him, and he promised an interview
FOR America as soon as he feels equal to the two
or three hours extra labor it will entail for he
IS very careful as to what he says in an interview
for the press, writing most of his answers himself
lie has intention Of going anywhere for
chance of air before the Faster recess
OF this you may be assured in any case That
II, instead of being so robust he is, Mr.. Parnell
were paralyzed in every limb, he would
still be our leader in preference to any other
man on the face of the earth; and this is the
feeling of every member of his party. We feel
proudcr of him and more loyal to him every
day, il that were possible; for each day. to those
who see him closely, reveals him in clearer
light of the greatest statesmen of the
ever nurtured, and the leader destined by PrOvi
dence to bring country through the most
difficult and glorious epoch in her history.
The jury in the Dillon case has been well and
truly packed. Twenty-nine Catholics were Or
dered by the Crown to stand aside; and there is
not man in the box whom the Government
does not believe to be a sworn enemy of the
prisoners. But LiSh ry-paclllng
carried under such fierce gaze of scrutiny
from England and tomorrow win witness a scene
I'm the House Of Commons which will be quite
unprecedented. A large body of English mem
bers, representing the cream of the Liberal party,
met TO-DAY and resolved to move an adjournment
of the House in order to call attention to the
dongs of the Dublin jury-packers. An action so
significant this-no matter what way this trial
may turn out-I think may be regarded the
death lInen IF the accused system by which
Dublin Castle plays against the liberties of
political opponents with loaded dice.
L wrote my last dispatch in the London house
Of one of the traversers, Mr. William Redmond,
NJ r. where with few other friends | had
been dnng. II was all gayety of heart during
the evening; but there reverse TO the
shield. Mr.. Redmond seriously i'll, ard only
forced himself to his feet that he might be in his
place in the dock on Monday morning; and the
little child wife, knowing this and having got
10 convict him, crying her eyes out in secret
every time she could steal away for few minutes
from her guests. They travelled to Dublin
Sunday night, but the journey threw him back
that he has not yet been able to leave his bed
in the hotel and has had to appear in court after
all by doctors certificate.
Rumors are still afoat to the satisfactory
continuation Of the round table conference Do
not credit any such statements The round table
negotiations are exactly where they three
weeks ago, when l was able, the highest
possible authority, to inform you that they were
holelessly broken off. Sir William Harcourt, iii
said: my wife and | goinS TO remove, and
we are willing to sell the round table. VIII you
buy il ?" Ny friend who is a sta nch Glad
stonian, remarked that if he bought it he would
first screw the legs from under it, and trOunce
Sir William and Mr.. Morley for having
entered the conference.
Mr.. Chamberlan's friends going about cir
culating his ultimatum that, if the GladstOnlans
Choose they can have the Irish question settled
In three months, and if they do not it will not
be settled for q generation in other words, that
If Mr. Gladstone goes down his knees to Mr.
Chamberlsn all will he well, and if he does not
for the next twenty five years. The threat is
about as grotesque as the proposition. Mr..
Chamberlain has simply become what the French
call impossible, and the Gladstonans will hold
no more negotiations with him until he develops
Oil humber frame OF mind. T. i. GILL, NJ Z.
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